If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.